Ishqnaama: The love-life of Momin Khan Momin
Momin lived to love and loved to live but he could not have luck with any of his beloveds.
By Anisur Rahman
September 15, 2018
Tag : Love Shayari
Ada Jafarey
Ada Jafarey has had many distinctions: she was one of the first female voices of substance in Urdu poetry; she was refreshingly modernist, and above all entirely inimitable.
By Aman Ali
August 21, 2018
Jaan Nisar Akhtar
As a word, Jaan Nisar qualifies a person who can submit one’s life. Jaan Nisar Akhtar did so precisely to engage with the demon of life and the muse of poetry.
By Faisal Fehmi
August 16, 2018
Mahima Us Ki Hi Rahe Jis Ka Nao Najeer
Nazeer was a poet of the masses. He was a common man, wrote of the common people, and in the common language.
By Anisur Rahman
August 4, 2018
We Haven’t Served Premchand Well, Have We?
Much of what we think or say about Premchand today is usually clichéd. We have been made to believe that this literary major of our times was only a fiction writer, and a Hindi fiction writer to be precise, who emerged and stayed on primarily as a storyteller of rural life. All these are sheer misrepresentations that need to be redressed.
By Anisur Rahman
July 31, 2018
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